I've written a short piece for History Today about changing attitudes towards the poor in sixteenth-century Rome. #earlymodern

I enjoyed talking about soldiers, sumptuary laws and the second-hand trade in Rome for a recent episode of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🗃️🪡 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Anni Albers' textiles are in the spotlight in an exhibition in Bern, moving onto Vienna next year, with an accompanying Yale University Press publication. #textilehistory www.zpk.org/en/ausstellu...

I'll be in Oxford on 28 October talking about clothing and the poor in Rome for the Italian Early Modern World Seminar. This is their line up for the term: italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern... 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern

Part-time collections assistant post with English Heritage closing date 19 October. #museumjobs www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-pe...

On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along! #skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...

Some thoughts on Caravaggio's inventive representations of dress in a blog for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern 🗃️🪡 reaktionbooks.co.uk/caravaggio-a...

The Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan is displaying 120 outfits by Giorgio Armani. The show, which opened just weeks after his death, will run until 11 January. 🗃️🪡 pinacotecabrera.org/en/news/most...

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century. 🗃️🪡 #earlymodern 📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

If you're in Cambridge next Thursday I'll be talking about my new book for the Early Modern World Seminar - they have a great line up this term! #earlymodern www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Another AI triumph #earlymodern www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday. #earlymodern www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/carav...

The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'. 🗃️🪡 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday. #earlymodern www.vam.ac.uk/event/yO4oRy...

Giovanni Bellini's Saint Jerome with an impressive tunic, complete with side clip and mini bag. Currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery with other paintings loaned from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. 🗃️🪡

Looking forward to this talk at The Wallace Collection - an event linked to their Caravaggio display opening in November. #earlymodern

Women textile designers for Liberty are the focus of the new exhibition opening at the William Morris Gallery next month - so many fabulous pieces to choose from! #textilehistory 🪡🗃️ www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-...

Just discovered that the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now open access, including my article from 2019 on clothing, health and the body in #earlymodern England and Italy. 🗃️🪡 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

The Velasco show at the National Gallery, London, is well worth a visit before it closes on 17 August. As well as epic landscapes, it offers a glimpse into Mexico's burgeoning textile industry in the nineteenth century. #textilehistory

Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory jobs.theguardian.com/job/9693493/...

Serbian textile designer Bernat Klein's 'dilapidated' modernist textile studio is being sold at auction. Klein's client list included Chanel and Victor Stiebel. 🗃️🪡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The portrait collection at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk lived up to expectations - especially the newly conserved painting of Ralph Bosville. #earlymodern 🗃️🪡

🧵One week to go! 🧵The deadline for submission to our conference on the crafts of fashion and space is July 15th mappingfashionsavoirfaire4.wordpress.com

The latest addition to the 'Studies in Design and Material Culture' series @manchesterup.bsky.social on the ways historical interiors have been re-presented for contemporary audiences.📣

Great news that Flora Dennis will be joining the Warburg Institute as Deputy Director in October 👏 #earlymodern

A Guardian review of V&A East Storehouse. Perhaps a surprising choice of object given his dislike of the recent Sargent exhibition exploring links between art and fashion. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign....

ANNOUNCING 🔔 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - prev. winner of @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 💎 What happens when you see skin differently? @bristoluni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

Carlo Crivelli's 'Annunciation' is one of many works to get a new lease of life in the National Gallery rehang. It's the first time I spotted this woman - perhaps a servant - spinning thread under an archway in the background. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ca...

Looking forward to talking about men's fashions with artist and filmmaker Simon Frederick on 20 June. It's a paid event for National Gallery members but it'll also be a chance to see their newly opened Supporters' House. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/mascu...

Two big #fashionhistory shows in Paris this Spring: Worth at Le Petit Palais and "Au fil de l'or" at the Quai Branly - a sweeping overview of the use of gold (and its imitations) in textiles.

Fabulous sea creatures and birds, part of a large embroidered hanging at Girona cathedral, thought to date from the twelfth century. #textilehistory 🪡

Interesting review of Owen Hatherley's book on the impact of European refugees on British postwar art, architecture and design. Hopefully textile designers like Jacqueline Groag, Tibor Reich etc get a mention too. 📷 Marian Mahler, 1950, V&A #textilehistory🪡 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

My book 'Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio' is in @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Autumn/Winter catalogue. The cover is a detail of a painting by Valentin de Boulogne in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. reaktionbooks.co.uk/catalogues #fashionhistory #earlymodern

Fully funded PhD project researching #earlymodern Netherlandish objects at the Museum of the Home - looks like a really interesting project.

There's a fantastic section showing the textiles that inspired artists like Simone Martini at the National Gallery's 'Siena' exhibition, with an accompanying catalogue essay by Lisa Monnas. #nationalgallery #textilehistory 🪡

Fashionably dressed visitors at Southwark pleasure gardens open from 1831-56, promoting zoology + 'healthful amusement' with an erupting replica of Mount Vesuvius. From the small but fascinating show on the Lost Gardens of London at the Garden Museum, closing tomorrow. #fashionhistory #gardenhistory

Upcoming event to mark the publication of 'Italian Graphic Design' by Chiara Barbieri @manchesterup.bsky.social On 14 March at the Italian Cultural Institute. #designhistory iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

CFP: THREADS OF EMPIRE: MODES, MATERIALS AND THE MAKING OF TEXTILES Commodities of Empire Workshop, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Sep. 2025. Deadline: Mar 28 #MaterialCulture commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/

'Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome' by Camilla Annerfeldt is out now, published by Bloomsbury Academic, with lots of new archival research into the social meanings of fashion in the city. 🪡 #fashionhistory #earlymodern www.bloomsbury.com/uk/clothing-...

Excited to see a copy of 'Refashioning the Renaissance' - congratulations to @paulahohti.bsky.social and the project team. It's a beautifully designed book with colour illustrations and covers a wide range of fashion-related themes - it will be used in so many ways! 👏 #earlymodern #fashionhistory

📣 2 PhD positions at Leiden - book- and/or art historians to join the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)" Deadline 8 December. #BookHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #PhD www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

The Walters Art Museum's recent acquisitions include Willem van Herp's 'Tavern Owner with Two Members of Staff and a Client' (1650s) showing 'a remarkably early European depiction of a Black businesswoman'. #earlymodern www.codart.nl/acquisitions...

The Walters Art Museum's recent acquisitions include Willem van Herp's 'Tavern Owner with Two Members of Staff and a Client' (1650s) showing 'a remarkably early European depiction of a Black businesswoman'. #earlymodern www.codart.nl/acquisitions...

Some glorious lace and embroidery details from the Howard family portraits by William Larkin, looking especially good with new lighting at Kenwood House, as discussed by Elizabeth Goldring in this LRB article: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Looking forward to hearing about Timothy McCall's current research on fifteenth century Italian fashion at this online talk on 18 November @warburginstitute.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing about Timothy McCall's current research on fifteenth century Italian fashion at this online talk on 18 November @warburginstitute.bsky.social

I've always admired the cover of this book - a gift to my mother from one of her students - and it turns out that the pattern is based on a wood engraving by textile designer Enid Marx. Published by Curwen Press, 1925. #textilehistory

I've always admired the cover of this book - a gift to my mother from one of her students - and it turns out that the pattern is based on a wood engraving by textile designer Enid Marx. Published by Curwen Press, 1925. #textilehistory